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Dr Reddys update on clinical study of oral molecule, PPC-06
"Given the positive clinical data in this study, PPC-06 may have a potential to serve as an important therapeutic option for psoriasis patients in a market with limited oral treatments. We thank all the patients, investigators and study staff whose ongoing participation helped us achieve this target." said Sagar Munjal, MD, MS, Chief Medical Officer Promius Pharma/VP Clinical Development & Medical Affairs.
Night owls can 'retrain' their body clocks to improve mental well-being
A simple tweak to the sleeping patterns of 'night owls' - people with extreme late sleeping and waking habits -- may improve performance in the mornings, and reduce depression and stress, a study has found. The research, published in the journal Sleep Medicine, showed that, over a three-week period, it was possible to shift the circadian rhythm of 'night owls' using non-pharmacological and practical interventions. The researchers from University of Birmingham and University of Surrey in the UK, and Monash University in Australia, showed that participants were able to bring forward their sleep/wake timings by two hours, while having no negative effect on sleep duration. In addition, participants reported a decrease in feelings of depression and stress, as well as in daytime sleepiness. "Our research findings highlight the ability of a simple non-pharmacological intervention to phase advance 'night owls', reduce negative elements of mental health and sleepiness, as well as manipulate ...
UP: Mulayam Singh Yadav discharged from hospital
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, has been discharged from Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences.His medical reports have come out to be normal, sources said.The SP leader was admitted to the hospital on Sunday due to high levels of blood sugar and was being treated by doctor Bhuvan Chandra Tiwari.His brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, along with former minister Ahmad Hasan, had visited him in the hospital.
Mulayam Singh Yadav admitted to hospital
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences on Sunday due to high levels of blood sugar.The SP leader is being treated by doctor Bhuvan Chandra Tiwari.His medical reports have come out to be normal, sources said.His brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, along with former minister Ahmad Hasan, visited him in the hospital.
No new cases of Nipah virus in Kerala: Harsh Vardhan
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday that no new cases of Nipah virus have been reported in Kerala, saying that the condition of the patients who tested positive for the virus was improving.
8-month-old dies in Jalandhar, family alleges medical negligence
The family members of an infant on Sunday claimed that their eight-month-old child died owing to the medical negligence of the doctors here at a private clinic.The deceased identified as 8-month-old Ananya whose family hails from Bihar was taken to a doctor here and the minor allegedly died during the treatment."They had come to Jalandhar to meet their relatives, it is when the infant fell sick and started having loose stool. Following the bad health, she was taken to a hospital. During the treatment, the doctor gave an injection to the child," said Sukhdev Singh, Station House Officer (SHO) Bhargava Kendra."The family alleged that after the vaccination when they brought the child home, she started to collapse. They then took her back to the doctors, they declared the infant dead," Singh added.While the family of the deceased infant is alleging medical negligence, the doctor claimed that he had referred the patient to another hospital, however, he added that the family failed to do ...
No new cases of Nipah in Kerala, infected patient's condition improving: Health Minister
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Sunday said no new case of Nipah virus infection has been reported in Kerala and informed that the clinical condition of the patient suffering from the disease, the only case this year, is improving. A case of Nipah was reported from Kerala's Ernakulum district on June 3 and the condition of the infected college student is improving, Vardhan said. The Nipah virus had claimed 17 lives in the state in May last year. As on Sunday, blood and serum samples of all seven suspected patients who were admitted at a quarantine facility at the Government Medical College in Kerala's Ernakulam district have tested negative for the virus, while the sample from the eighth patient is being tested, the minister said. On Saturday, four patients from the isolation unit were discharged as their clinical condition improved. National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune has collected three blood samples from pigs and about 30 samples from bats from Thodupuzha in Idukki ...
Early signs of type 2 diabetes in teens can be detected using microRNA: Study
A recent study has found how exosomes, tiny nanoparticles released from fat cells, travel through the bloodstream and can help detect type 2 diabetes in teens.The study was discussed in an annual meeting - ADA 2019.The exosomes are important in lean, healthy individuals in maintaining homeostasis, but when fat gets 'sick' - the most common reason for this is too much weight gain - it can change its phenotype, becoming inflammatory, and disrupts how our organs function, from how our skeletal muscle and liver metabolize sugar to how our blood vessels process cholesterol.The researchers were curious about what this process looked like in teens who fell in the mid-range of obesity.Obesity is a major risk factor for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, but the researchers wanted to know why do some teens with obesity develop type 2 diabetes over others? Why are some teens in this mid-range of obesity metabolically healthy while others have metabolic syndrome? Can fat in obese people ...
Sun-exposed oyster mushrooms helpful for tuberculosis patients: Study
A recent study highlighted the death rate caused due to Tuberculosis in low-income countries and also how the consumption of sun-exposed oyster mushrooms is beneficial for TB patients.The study was discussed in an annual meeting ' Nutrition 2019' held from June 8-11 in Baltimore.TibebeSelassie Seyoum Keflie, one of the researchers said, "TB is becoming more difficult to fight due to the emergence of drug-resistant strains, creating an urgent need for new treatments that can support first-line drugs.""This source of vitamin D is ideal for low-income countries because mushrooms can easily be distributed and administered in a safe, low-cost, easy-to-replicate manner," the researcher added.The studies have shown that vitamin D induces the body to help the formation of an antimicrobial compound that attacks the bacterial cause of TB. Although sun exposure can boost a person's vitamin D levels, it must be obtained through diet when sun exposure is scarce.The researchers used oyster ...
More than half of HIV patients in Pakistan's Sindh province remain without treatment: WHO
More than half of the 751 people diagnosed with HIV in Pakistan's Southern Sindh province remain without treatment, according to the World Health Organisation. The HIV positive cases were identified among the 21,375 tested in Larkana in May, and out of the affected, 604 are between the ages of 2 to 15. Health officials have attributed the cause to the use of unsanitary equipment, unsafe blood transfusion and rampant malpractice often at the hands of quacks. A report by the WHO experts, who are in Pakistan to investigate the outbreak of HIV cases and also support the local authorities' response to the medical emergency, says that more than half of the patients in Sindh remain deprived of any sort of treatment facilities. The WHO team has said that 751 people have tested positive for the HIV virus of which 604 are children. The report states that only 324 patients (47 per cent) have been provided treatment until now, while 427 (53 per cent) still await medical assistance. As per the ...
Meals taste better when you are seated: Study
Food tastes better when you are sitting down, say scientists who found that holding a standing posture for even a few minutes prompts physical stress, muting taste buds. The research, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, looked specifically at how the vestibular sense, which is responsible for balance, posture and spatial orientation, interacts with the gustatory sensory system, which impacts taste and flavour. According to the study led by Dipayan Biswas, a professor at University of South Florida in the US, the force of gravity pushes blood to the lower parts of the body, causing the heart to work harder to pump blood back up to the top of the body, accelerating heart rate. This activates the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and leads to increased concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol. This chain reaction reduces sensory sensitivity, which impacts food and beverage taste evaluation, food temperature perception and overall consumption volume. When people ...
Study reveals how diet affects children's brain
A new study has found how diet, water intake and beverages like coffee affect a child's brain.The study will be presented at the meeting, 'Nutrition 2019' in Baltimore, and showed an analysis of more than 850 elementary school children.According to the findings of the study, children who reported higher consumption of snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages scored lower on standardized academic tests, than children who consumed less of these foods.However, unhealthy diets were not linked to lower cognitive test scores in kids.Also, the study suggested that children with greater habitual hydration performed better during tasks requiring cognitive flexibility.In addition, children showed improvements in their hydration levels and working memory after consuming a higher amount of water--2.5 litres daily--than when instructed to drink just half a litre per day.Undernutrition, prevalent among young children worldwide can harm children's development. In a randomized controlled trial conducted .
World's first gene-edited babies may be at early death risk: Study
The world's first babies whose genes were reportedly altered to help them fend off HIV infection are more likely to die younger, a study claims. According to an analysis by scientists from University of California (UC)Berkeley in the US, the controversial genetic mutation that a Chinese scientist attempted to create in twin babies born last year is associated with a 21 per cent increase in mortality in later life. The researchers scanned more than 400,000 genomes and associated health records contained in a British database, UK Biobank, and found that people who had two mutated copies of the gene had a significantly higher death rate between ages 41 and 78 than those with one or no copies. Previous studies have associated two mutated copies of the gene, CCR5, with a fourfold increase in the death rate after influenza infection, and the higher overall mortality rate may reflect this greater susceptibility to death from the flu. However, the researchers said there could be any number of
How does diet influence diabetes risk?
The kind of food one eats and even the order in which it is consumed can affect the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.The studies are being presented at the meeting 'Nutrition 2019' in Baltimore.In a study of 2,717 young adults in the United States with long-term follow-up, people who increased the amount of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and vegetable oils in their diet over 20 years had a 60 per cent lower risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those with a small decrease in plant foods. The findings suggested that long-term shifts towards a more plant-centered diet could help prevent diabetes.Other findings suggested that people with higher intakes of vitamins B2 and B6 from food or supplements have a lower risk for type 2 diabetes. The study, which included more than 200,000 people, also revealed that consuming higher levels of vitamin B12 from foods was associated with a higher type 2 diabetes risk, which may be due to the consumption of animal products.According to ...
Here's what different countries prefer to drink
Giving insights into what people drink, a study has reported substantial differences in the beverages consumed by different demographic groups in 185 countries.The study will be presented at the meeting 'Nutrition 2019' in Baltimore."These preliminary data derived from the Global Dietary Database project can help inform nutrition transitions over time, the impacts of these beverages on global health, and targeted dietary policy to improve diet and health," said Laura Lara-Castor, study's lead author."Notably, sugar-sweetened beverage and fruit juice intake was highest in the Latin American region, where both commercial and homemade sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit drinks are widely consumed," said Lara-Castor."Milk intake was highest in the high-income region (including countries such as Sweden, Iceland, and Finland) where dairy farming is more widespread and dairy consumption has been traditionally a major part of the diet."The research is based on 2015 data from more than 1,100 ..
Here's why you need to increase your fruit, vegetable intake
Here's another reason for you to gorge on fruits and veggies. A new study has claimed that insufficient consumption of fruit and vegetable may account for millions of death from heart disease and strokes each year.The study presented at the meeting 'Nutrition 2019' in the Baltimore Convention Center, estimated that roughly 1 in 7 cardiovascular deaths could be attributed to not eating enough fruit and 1 in 12 cardiovascular deaths could be attributed to not eating enough vegetables.Low fruit intake resulted in nearly 1.8 million cardiovascular deaths in 2010, while low vegetable intake resulted in 1 million deaths, according to researchers.Overall, the toll of suboptimal fruit intake was almost double that of vegetables. The impacts were most acute in countries with the lowest average intakes of fruits and vegetables."Fruits and vegetables are a modifiable component of the diet that can impact preventable deaths globally," said Victoria Miller, lead study author of the study."Our ...
Poor sleep associated with poor nutrition: Study
Poor nutrition leads to poor sleep, a new study has found, while highlighting that a greater number of nutrients were associated with poor sleep in women than in men.However, this number could be reduced if women took dietary supplements.The study will be presented at the meeting 'Nutrition 2019' in Baltimore."This work adds to the body of growing evidence associating specific nutrient intakes with sleep outcomes," said Chioma Ikonte, study's lead author."Our findings suggest that individuals with short sleep duration might benefit from improving their intake of these nutrients through diet and supplementation," Ikonte added.In addition to the findings on sleep duration, the research suggested nutrients may also play a role in sleep disorders, poor sleep quality and trouble falling asleep.Micronutrients are vitamins and minerals that our bodies require but do not produce. As a result, they must come from our diet. Globally, billions of people suffer from at least one micronutrient ...
Internet may alter brain functions: Study
The Internet can alter specific brain regions and affect our attention capacity, memory processes and social interaction, a study has found. The research, published in the journal World Psychiatry, showed that the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition. The researchers, including those from Oxford University in the UK and Harvard University in the US investigated leading hypotheses on how the Internet may alter cognitive processes. It further examined the extent to which these hypotheses were supported by recent findings from psychological, psychiatric and neuroimaging research. The report combined the evidence to produce revised models on how the Internet could affect the brain's structure, function and cognitive development. "The key findings of this report are that high-levels of Internet use could indeed impact on many functions of the brain," said Joseph Firth, Senior Research Fellow at Western Sydney University in ...
Rampur: Patients being treated on the floor due to lack of beds
In yet another case of medical apathy, patients were seen being treated on the floor at Rampur District Hospital due to lack of proper bed facilities.People can be seen lying on the floor with drips on their hands, while the drip bottles were seen hung up on the windows.A doctor on duty said that there has been a sudden increase in the number of patients which led to the non-availability of beds in the hospital.A patient named Mohammad Samir Ahmed said, "3-4 people are sleeping on a single bed due to lack of sufficient beds in the hospital."Other patients present in the hospital also complained about the same issue.Chief Medical Officer BS Nagar told ANI, "Some patients insist on being admitted, so the number of patients at the hospital has increased. We will investigate the matter.
Gulbarga Medical Institute facing acute shortage of anti-rabies vaccine
Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences in Kalaburagi is facing an acute shortage of anti-rabies vaccine due to a shortage in drug supply, an official said on Saturday.Girish, who brought his daughter for vaccination, was left disappointed after the hospital authorities informed him that no injection was available."I brought my daughter to this hospital for injection as she was bitten by a dog. Now, the hospital authorities told me that there is a shortage of injections. For people like us, treatment in a private hospital is expensive. Who will be responsible if something happens to her?" he asked.When asked about the issue, Medical Superintendent GIMS hospital, Shivakumar accepted that there has been a shortage of vaccines and told ANI that the institute is dependent on Karnataka government for the supply of vaccines."There is a shortage of anti-rabies vaccines. There are issues from manufacturing units somewhere around in Tamil Nadu. We are facing this problem for over one month. We .
